It is officially beer and chilled watermelon weather

[fredericks]

I'm not going to bitch about the heat (*much*), but I will say that I much prefer it when it's cold outside. During the winter you just have to layer like a motha and you're okay. When it's hot and you don't have A/C? You're S.O.L.. I'm in absolutely no mood to stick anything on the stove and there's nothing in the fridge that would work as a whole meal that doesn't require heating to become edible, but I feel awful even thinking about asking delivery folk to bring food over. And it's supposed to be this hot until Tuesday. Sweet Gee.

Comments

[army-kitten.livejournal.com]

meee too! i missed them so badly when i was living in portland. it just doesn't thunderstorm there. DDDD: that was the one thing that didn't feel like "home."

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Really? Aww. I find the whole idea of living in the Pacific Northwest fascinating. I really liked Seattle when I went to visit. I can do without the thunderstorms if I get mildish weather and lots of rain. Then again, you don't get that rush of warm air and the sharp smell of ozone without thunderstorms, do you? I remember when I was younger pressing my face against the screen panel on my window as the skies opened up...I sort of do the same thing now, but I'm more "grown-up" about it. :)

thunderstorm love XD

[army-kitten.livejournal.com]

see, i thought the weather was "mildish" too before i lived in portland. then i realized that even though it rarely gets down to freezing temperatures, it's so damp all through fall, winter, and spring that the cold seeps right into your bones and doesn't leave until summer. your towels never dry, and this gross pink mold grows on everything in the bathroom. none of the older houses have any insulation, so it's difficult and ridiculously expensive to properly heat any rooms. thus, most people i know hardly ever turned on their heat. on the very rare occasions when there is snow (and two winters in a row when i lived there, we had ice storms), the entire city shuts down.

i ended up just enduring through bone-chilling dampness for four years in a row. it's like i didn't get properly warm until i moved to minnesota, one of the coldest places in the US in the wintertime—but it's a dry cold. AND people turn on their heat there. XD

that said, portland is still the most beautiful place i've ever lived. wintertime there is SO GREEN. and the summer weather, at least, is absolute perfection.

Re: thunderstorm love XD

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Aww, a green winter? I like the snows and all. And the whole mold thing? Not helping so much with my love of Portland. I guess I'll stick with Seattle.